Thursday, March 1st Sanitation Exercise In Lagos!

Thursdays are generally set aside for weekly sanitation exercise around Lagos State,  Nigeria, mostly for markets and business area clean-up. On Thursday, March 1st, 2018, Roving Informant, hovered around some parts of Lekki Peninsula/ Lagos Island axis of the State, and brings this report.

Mobil Rd, Off Ilaje Bus-stop

As observed, shops and businesses all over the state, were closed between the hours of 6 to 10 in the morning. However, while some business owners observed the exercise, as seen in pictures below.

Mobil Rd, Off Ilaje Bus-Stop, Lekki

Mobil Rd, Off Ilaje Bus-Stop, Lekki

Others were seen hanging around their business premises. Aside the routine cleaning of indoors, no sanitation was carried out on the immediate environments and drainage systems.  This category of traders/ business owners normally would wait for the exercise to be over, so they could get on with their affairs.

Blocked Gutter at Ilaje Bus-stop, Lekki, this suggests the Thursday Sanitation exercise has peharps never beenobserved by business owners and traders in this area

Officials of Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) trying to dispose massive/smelly wastes at Tinubu Square Round About, Lagos Island (is this place a legal waste disposal point???)

Uncleared gutter at Ilaje Bus-stop, by RCCG, Tabernacle of David

The pictures above and below, indicate that the gutter by the RCCG, Tabernacle of David, main building and car park area, was left unattended. 

Ilaje Bus-stop, by RCCG, Tabernacle of David

Environmental sanitation officers appeared to be off-duty, on a day they are supposed to be up and about, monitoring clean-up activities around the state. Just one officer , female, was spotted along Mobil road, off Ilaje bus-stop, in the Lekki Peninsula axis.

Blocked drainage system at Isale Gangan, Lagos Island

For effective Clean-Up exercise, in-order to achieve desired goal(s), governmental and non-government organisations should participate in the clean-up exercise. We don't just take from our environment, we should give back, by taking good care of it. 

Wastes, waiting to be cleared at CMS Bus-Stop, Lagos Island at the early hours of Thursday, March 1st, 2018.

Flood as a result of un-cleared/ blocked drainage at Idu-Magbo, Lagos Island

Idu-Magbo, Lagos Island

Blocked gutters at Mobil Rd, Off Ilaje Bus-Stop, Lekki

This report, obtained from a small 'study group', in Lekki Peninsula and Lagos Island axis, but which can be indicative in reaching a generalisation, implies that periodic 'sanitation' exercises in Lagos State, and by inference, most Nigerian States is not strictly observed. Little wonder our communities are plagued with constant flood, when ever it rains and epidemic outbreaks. 

                                                              

Link to previous publication on 'environmental/ Sanitation Challenges below: 

http://rovinginformant.blogspot.com.ng/2016/11/drainage-clearance-needs-waste-disposal.html